Explained: Army's Challenges In Kashmir Encounter, And Plan To Tackle Them

It is not known if the terrorists have been killed by the security forces, or are still in hiding, or have fled, as the encounter entered its fifth day today.

The terrorists hiding in dense forests of Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district have stopped firing for now, over a hundred hours into the search operation in which three senior security officers were killed in action.

It is not known if the terrorists have been killed by the security forces, or are still in hiding, or have fled, as the encounter that began Tuesday night entered its fifth day today.

Three officers, including two from the Army and a police, were killed in action on Wednesday as they tried to approach the terrorist hideout in the middle of the forest.